Rouzbeh Parsi

Rouzbeh Parsi is Head of Programme of the Middle East and North Africa Programme since October 2018.

Rouzbeh Parsi wrote his PhD thesis about modernity, nationalism and gender in Iran between the two world wars. During the period 2009-2013, he was working for the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), focusing the Middle East in general and Iran and the Gulf states in particular. Since 2013 he is a senior lecturer at Lund University, and he is also a co-founder of the European Iran Research Group, which is a network of Iran scholars and policy experts in Europe.